Canary Island spa recreates life in the womb

A spa in Gran Canaria has installed a treatment room designed to simulate life
as an unborn child.

The low-lit room is filled with 'blood-coloured' water beds 'designed to indicate the amniotic sac'

5:28PM GMT 02 Feb 2011

‘The Womb Room’ – part of the Corallium Spa at Gran Canaria’s Lopesan Costa Meloneras resort – includes a range of features designed to “re-create the journey of life starting with where it all began: the womb”.

The entrance to the room, or the “the neck of the uterus”, is a passageway fashioned out of pink carpet, while the treatment room itself, containing pink carpets splashed with red fabric, revolves slowly “to simulate a giant umbilical cord”.

The low-lit room is filled with “blood-coloured” water beds “designed to indicate the amniotic sac”.

Music, described by the hotel as "breathy", is also piped into the room to re-create the noises heard inside the womb.

“According to recent research around 60 per cent of adults suffer from sleep problems and one third from insomnia,” said a spokeswoman. “The Womb Room could be the answer to those restless night.”